Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sandage, assistant astronomer at California's Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, notes that this would mean that the universe was expanding more rapidly a billion years ago than it is now. "If the measurements and the interpretation are correct." he says, "this suggests that we live in an evolving rather than in a steady-state universe." Even Hoyle is impressed by these findings, calls them "the most serious potential contradiction of the steady-state theory...
...Along with the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges announced that they are finally going to take full advantage of their propinquity. Among the ideas for the new intercollege cooperative program they are working on: establishing a common educational FM radio station, sharing outside lectures and planning concerts together, preparing a program of remedial reading. If all goes well, the four campuses might even extend their share-the-wealth idea to regular graduate and undergraduate work...
Started in 1951 during the Korean war, the job of building the base involved the greatest earth-moving project since the Panama Canal: 85 feet of solid earth and rock were hacked from the top of Mount Maritan, and millions of tons of coral rock were dredged from the nearby China...
...Hollingsworth Wood, 82, slim, bushy-browed Manhattan lawyer and Quaker humanitarian, a founder (1910) and president (1915-41) of the National Urban League (membership: 50,000), which supports Negro rights in housing and employment, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Friends Service Committee; in Mount Kisco...
...African drums." Handicap Game. In Tokyo, preparing to pay a bet lost on the U.S. All-Star baseball game, Stars and Stripes Employee Don Schuck went into training for ten days, lost 8 Ibs., then golfed his way through wind, sleet and hail to the summit of Mount Fuji (12,389 ft.), losing 27 balls, taking 1,275 strokes, and after 10 hr. 50 min. holed out into the mountain's 2,000-ft.-wide crater...